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Dr. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Ph.D., FRS, serves as the President at Global Research Alliance. Dr. Mashelkar is a Co-Founder at Invictus Oncology Private Limited. He serves as a Senior Advisor at IndusAge Partners and Tata Capital Innovations Fund. He has an outstanding academic record and has held several high positions in the field of Science and Technology. He served as an Advisor of Indigene Pharmaceuticals, Pvt. Ltd. H served as the Director General of the Council ... of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for over eleven years. Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director at National Chemical Laboratory from 1989 to 1995. He served as also the President at Indian National Science Academy (INSA) from 2005 to 2007. He has been the Non-Executive Chairman at Reliance Reliance GeneMedix plc since January 2008 and has been its Non-Executive Director since July 2, 2007. He serves as the Chairman of National Innovation Foundation, Marico Innovation Foundation and Reliance Innovation Council. Dr. Mashelkar has been an Independent Director of Reliance Industries Limited since June 9, 2007. He has been a Non-Executive Independent Director of Piramal Enterprises Limited since December 21, 2011. He has been a Non-Executive Independent Director at Tata Motors Limited since August 28, 2007. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Imperial Innovations India. He has been an Independent Director of Thermax Ltd. since January 29, 2008. Dr. Mshelkar serves as a Director of Tata Motors Limited, Thermax Limited, Piramal Life Sciences Limited, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited, Sakal Papers Limited, IKP Knowledge Park and several private limited companies. He is the Chairman of GenNext Ventures. He is also a Director of Reliance Gene Medix Plc. He has been Independent Director of KPIT Technologies Limited (formerly KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.), since May 30, 2008. He served as a Director of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. from April 4, 2008 to July 26, 2013. Dr. Mashelkar served as an Additional Director of Thermax Ltd. since January 29, 2008. He served as an Independent Director of Piramal Life Sciences Limited (now Piramal Phytocare Limited) from February 26, 2008 to February 2012 and served as Member of Scientific Advisory Board until February 2012. He served as an Additional Independent Director of Tata Motors Ltd. since August 28, 2007. He serves as a Director of IKP Knowledge Park and NPIL Research and Development Ltd. Dr. Mashelkar is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. As a Member of the International Intellectual Property Rights Commission of UK Government and as Vice Chairman on Commission in Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH) set up by World Health Organization (WHO), he brought new perspectives on the issue of IPR and the developing world concerns. He was awarded the Padmashri in 1991 and Padmabhushan in 2000, and is the only third Indian Engineer to have been elected as Fellow of Royal Society (FRS) London in the twentieth Century. Twenty-six Universities have honoured Dr. Mashelkar with honorary doctorates, which include Universities of London, Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Delhi. He has won over 50 awards and medals, hich include S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in 1982, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Technology Award in 1991, G.D. Birla Scientific Research Award in 1993, Material Scientist of Year Award in 2000, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration and Management Sciences in 2002, IMC Juran Quality Medal in 2002, HRD Excellence Award in 2002, World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) Medal of Engineering Excellence by WFEO, Paris in 2003, Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian Science Congress in 2004, the Science medal by the Academy of Science for the Developing World in 2005, Ashutosh Mookherjee Memorial Award by Indian Science Congress in 2005, etc. Dr. Mashelkar is Chairman of Thermax Innovation Council. He was elected Foreign Associate of National Academy of Science (USA) in 2005. He was elected Foreign Fellow of US National Academy of Engineering in 2003, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K. in 1996, and Fellow of World Academy of Art & Science , USA (2000). Dr. Mashelkar is the only Scientist so far to have won the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award (1998). On November 16, 2005, he received the Business Week (USA) award of 'Stars of Asia' at the hands of George Bush (Sr.). He was the first Asian Scientist to receive it. He was the first Indian President of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK. He is the first Indian to have been elected as the Foreign Fellow of Australian Technological Science and Engineering Academy (2008). He is one of India’s leading scientists and is renowned for creating a paradigm shift in the CSIR system by changing the focus from “publish or perish” to “patent, publish and prosper”. Apart from having authored/co-authored more than 200 research publications, Dr. Mashelkar has also published around 20 books (comprising of varied topics) and has close to 28 patents to his name. Twenty-six universities have honoured him with honorary doctorates, which include Universities of London, Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Delhi. He is an eminent scientist. He holds Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Bombay University.

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